How gambling pioneers helped shape modern computing

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Sep 3, 202625:00Science & Medicine

Bloomberg investigative journalist Kit Chellel explores the surprising history of gamblers who used mathematics, early computers, and engineering to beat casinos and sportsbooks, while helping pioneer technologies that w...

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